Stone-age Europeans 'were the first to set foot on North America'

http://www.telegraph.co.uk ^ | February 28 2012 | Matthew Day

[Para-Ord.45]

First Kennewick man, now this.

Looks like the white guilt trip is finally over and there is no more eternal debt to be eternally paid out.

[steelyourfaith]

Fascinating.

[ModelBreaker]

I just hope the ancestors of the current Indians did not wipe out the noble people who occupied the continent before them.

[Vendome]

Did they find any made of iron or bronze? Maybe some teeth from a horse?

Wonder who will attempt to co-opt these people as their ancestors?

[twister881]

I made it! I'm a white guy and...a Native American! Woo-hoo, when do the welfare checks start flowing? I'm gonna build a casino on my property!

[rsobin]

Were they white?

[Misterioso]

So the Pilgrims came here to reclaim their ancestors’ original homeland.

[WakeUpAndVote]

[blam]

Here too:

America 'discovered by Stone Age hunters from Europe'

[skeeter]

[Secret Agent Man]

I guess we are really “more American” than the mexicans claim to be. In that stupid-racist-ass song that apparently is so popular with them now.

[Wonder Warthog]

"I just hope the ancestors of the current Indians did not wipe out the noble people who occupied the continent before them."

Of course they did. The evidence being that the "Indians" are now here, and the others are not. Such has been the course of history for all man's existence.

[mamelukesabre]

HUH???

That’s obviously what happened.

[ml/nj]

America B.C.: Ancient Settlers in the New World by Barry Fell

Interesting book. I read it some time ago. Among other things I remember him describing America's Stonehenge.

ML/NJ

[Blogatron]

I’m buildin’ me a casino.

[CodeToad]

hehe

Native Americans are squatters!

[mikrofon]

Stone-age Europeans

To some, a redundant description of Columbus, et al...

[Happy Rain]

Looks like the johnny come lately American Indian interlopers did a genocide or the European settlers’ descendants would still be around...

[SF_Redux]

to the title, so what?

[dog breath]

It is hard to say what happened to those first people, genetic testing is inconclusive so far, the very early French trappers were a horny bunch. The loss of complete populations among the Native Americans with the introduction of European epidemics was an apocalyptic in nature eliminating many of the people that could be tested. That old European stone age blood would of had no more resistance to the diseases then the other populations. They did identify an early negroid genetic strain in South America. The stories of light skinned Indians sparked lots of speculation amongst the early explorers but then again there were always other possible explanations. This is a story still to be told.